Island of Point Nemo

Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès (Trans. Hannah Chute)

“His fingers caress what look like the colorful bindings of the Collection Hetzel.”

August 16, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Playing the “Bigly” Game: On Poverty and Shame in America

“It’s Not Whether you Win or Lose, it’s Whether You Win”

August 16, 2017  By Fiona Helmsley   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Lit Hub Daily: August 15, 2017

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August 15, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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How Many Times Am I Touched in a Week? A Study

Stephanie Gangi Records Every Moment of Intentional Contact in Seven Days

August 15, 2017  By Stephanie Gangi   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Whose Idea of America? Rauschenberg, Whitman, or Trump?

Geoff Hilsabeck Considers a Country at War, and the Artists Within

August 15, 2017  By Geoffrey Hilsabeck   Posted In  Art and Photography  Features  News and Culture 
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How to Find Michel de Montaigne’s Estate (Or Get Hopelessly Lost Trying)

When a Pilgrimage Becomes its Own Kind of Essay

August 15, 2017  By Erica Trabold   Posted In  Features 
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Fact, Fiction, and When a Novel Crosses the Line

Joanna Scott on the Illusive Boundaries of Truth and Literature

August 15, 2017  By Joanna Scott   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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5 Books Making News This Week: Disappearances and Disasters

Lindsay Hunter, Deborah E. Kennedy, Henry Fountain, and More

August 15, 2017  By Jane Ciabattari   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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Still a Fire

Paul Yoon

“He waits with the others.”

August 15, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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Lit Hub Daily: August 14, 2017

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When Pakistan Feels Like an L.A. Noir

Motels, Broken Dreams, and Mysterious Men Asking Questions

August 14, 2017  By Kamila Shamsie   Posted In  Features  Freeman's  News and Culture 
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What Does it Mean When We Call a Key a “Slave”?

On the Power and Responsibility of Metaphor

August 14, 2017  By Peggy Shinner   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

Jarett Kobek Gives Away His Professional Secrets

August 14, 2017  By Jarett Kobek   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in A Separation

Because All Books Have Dead Women and Tidy Endings

August 14, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Writing Just Enough Detail, But Not Too Much

Daniel Galera on Finding That Perfect Description

August 14, 2017  By Daniel Galera   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Beyond the High Blue Air

Lu Spinney

“Imagine a young man in his prime.”

August 14, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Lit Hub Weekly: August 7 – 11, 2017

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August 12, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Lit Hub Daily: August 11, 2017

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The Useful Dangers of Fairy Tales

Because Sometimes the Wolf Shows Up Uninvited

August 11, 2017  By Amber Sparks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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On Living, and Thinking, in Two Languages at Once

Camille Bordas on Bouncing Between French and English

August 11, 2017  By Camille Bordas   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  On Translation 
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